Wednesday, October 14, 2015

#JewishLivesMatter - (by Michael Freund)

> In the past week alone, 13 Jewish kids became
orphans, their lives forever altered by the cruelty and savagery of our foes. A
nine-year old was forced to stand by the freshly dug graves of his parents and
recite Kaddish, an experience that no Jewish child should ever have to endure.

> This past Saturday night, Palestinian terrorist
Mohannad Halabi attacked 22-year-old Aharon Banita and his wife and children as
they walked through Jerusalem’s Old City during Succot. Halabi stabbed Banita
to death and wounded his spouse and two-year-old child, before proceeding to
murder Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi, who had heard the commotion and emerged from his
apartment to try and stop the bloodshed.

Palestinian shopkeepers saw what was happening and
refused to intervene. Instead, according to Banita’s widow, they spat upon her
as she cried for help.

> It beggars belief that the
world’s top diplomat, the man charged with the mandate of preserving
international peace and security, would denounce the killing of murderers but
not that of their victims.

The past three weeks have seen an increasingly brutal series
of Palestinian terrorist attacks against innocent Israeli Jews, but much of the
international community either does not know or seem to care.

Toddlers have been wounded, parents murdered in front of
their children and Jewish holy sites desecrated, but the conscience of the
world has not been pricked. Not one lousy bit.

In the past week alone, 13 Jewish kids became orphans, their
lives forever altered by the cruelty and savagery of our foes. A nine-year old
was forced to stand by the freshly dug graves of his parents and recite
Kaddish, an experience that no Jewish child should ever have to endure.

Yet few outside Israel seem aware of what is happening, and
fewer still are shedding tears. It is time for this to change, and for pro-Israel
activists worldwide to spread a simple yet powerful message. In the parlance of
Twitter, it is this: #JewishLivesMatter.

We shouldn’t have to do this. We shouldn’t have to convince
the media or anyone else of something so basic, a value so obvious and
fundamental to being human that it staggers the mind that it needs to be
articulated or verbalized.

But consider the following example, and you will see exactly
what I mean.

This past Saturday night, Palestinian terrorist Mohannad
Halabi attacked 22-year-old Aharon Banita and his wife and children as they
walked through Jerusalem’s Old City during Succot. Halabi stabbed Banita to
death and wounded his spouse and two-year-old child, before proceeding to
murder Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi, who had heard the commotion and emerged from his
apartment to try and stop the bloodshed.

Palestinian shopkeepers saw what was happening and refused
to intervene. Instead, according to Banita’s widow, they spat upon her as she
cried for help. When police arrived on the scene, they shot and killed Halabi
as he attacked them.

The following day, in its World Digest section, The
Washington Post headlined an Associated Press story about the incident as
follows: “Palestinian is killed after fatal attack.”

Yes, you read that correctly.

Knowing full well that many readers only glance at the
headlines without reading the story, the paper’s editors disgracefully decided
to disregard the victims completely, instead providing a false and distorted
view of what occurred.

The implicit message behind the Washington Post’s callous
choice of words is as unmistakable as it is offensive: Jewish lives don’t
matter. When the lives of two Jews are cruelly snuffed out by a Palestinian
terrorist, they simply don’t warrant wasting the extra ink needed to include
them in a large-type headline.

But it is not just the mainstream press that engages in this
ugly and gruesome game. The problem goes much deeper and is far more
troublesome than that.

Indeed, the insensitivity toward the value of Jewish life
was on full display on Tuesday, when UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon went out
of his way to condemn the killing of Palestinian terrorists while failing to
mention or even acknowledge their Israeli victims.

Ban said he was “profoundly alarmed by the growing number of
deadly incidents in the West Bank, including east Jerusalem.”

He then referred to the death of four Palestinians,
including three terrorists killed after perpetrating attacks against Israelis,
and said the following: “The secretary general condemns the killings and looks
to the government of Israel to conduct a prompt and transparent investigation
into the incidents, including whether the use of force was proportional.”

Ban did not utter one word – not a single syllable – about
the Jews who were killed. Incredibly, he came to the defense of the murderers,
demanding an investigation into their deaths, while completely ignoring those
whom they killed.

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